Sharpshooter finds on nursery plants are lowest in a decade

During 2011, there were only four rejected shipments of nursery stock from areas infested with glassy-winged sharpshooters due to the presence of pest life stages. The Pierce's Disease/Glassy-winged Sharpshooter board said the pest detections on more than 44,000 nursery stock shipments were the lowest number since the start of the inspection program nearly a decade ago.

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